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Billy Hargrove’s background combines architecture with development and construction. His daily tasks include: business development; design and construction management; determining strategy and direction; setting the company’s culture, values, and behavior; and allocating capital to the company’s priorities.

He was formerly a principal at Somdal Associates, with over 10 years of professional experience including healthcare and athletic facilities, residential and commercial projects. Hargrove has worked with health and wellness administrators all over to define their programs and help them create more efficient facilities and campuses. Working in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, right out of school, he moved to his hometown of Shreveport after receiving his professional licensure.

Architect/Planner Bruce Tolar was honored with the fifth annual Michael Barranco Award at the 2015 gathering of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) in Dallas, Texas. The award is given to an individual who has contributed more than just innovative design. He or she must also have demonstrated a Barranco-like gift “for building enduring relationships beyond architecture, inspiring passionate coalitions for transformative change in the lives of families and communities.”

As principal of George McConnell Jr. Architect, George McConnell, BArch 1967, successfully completed an eight-year contract with South Carolina Electric & Gas, advising on architectural design and property development around Lake Murray in Columbia, South Carolina. He is excited to have more time to travel and spend with grandkids!

Lisa Herring Nice has worked at Post Architects for over 19 years and has been a partner in the firm since 2008. In 2015, she is currently serving as the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Louisiana Chapter President. She was honored to receive the President’s Medal and Certificate from AIALA in September 2015. She is happily married to Jeff Nice (also an LSU alumnus, in marketing), and they have twin girls that just turned 10 years old. Lisa loves design and planning and believes she was always destined to be an architect.

Kiwana T. McClung, AIA, NOMA, is a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native and an assistant professor in the School of Architecture & Design at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She was educated at Southern University and A&M College and received her Master of Architecture from LSU in 2012. Kiwana has worked on a variety of architectural design and planning projects as an intern architect with Coleman Partners Architects in Baton Rouge. Her past work experience includes numerous K-12 school renovation and master planning projects for East Baton Rouge Parish and St. Helena Parish schools, resort hotels in the Caribbean, and various commercial retail projects around southern Louisiana.

Kiwana is an artist who has completed several commissioned portraits for clients around the country. She serves as the faculty advisor to the UL chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students. In 2016, Kiwana was selected as the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture Award Recipient in recognition of her efforts to achieve greater diversity in curricula, school personnel, and student bodies, specifically to the incorporate the participation and contributions of historically underrepresented groups or contexts. To read more about her tremendous achievements, visit the ACSA 2015-16 Architectural Education Award Winners page.

As principal of GraceHebert Architects and as a specialist in the production of construction documents and construction administration , Raymond J. “Jody” Gascon III works on a wide range of projects from office buildings and baseball stadiums to churches and detention facilities. Much of his focus is on large-scale projects with high degrees of complexity that often require quick, on-the-spot solutions. He is adept at interpreting discrepancies in documents and quickly getting a change engineered, designed, and drawn.

Jody’s Portfolio

Jimmy Hebert joined GraceHebert Architects in 2005 after serving as the principal architect of Hebert & Associates Architects for 21 years. His experience includes government, educational, medical, mixed-use development, condominiums, historic preservation, and office tower projects ranging up to $78,000,000 and encompassing all aspects of construction. He has been involved in projects along the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina.

Jimmy’s Portfolio

Marcus J. Williams, AIA is currently the Program Director for the East Baton Rouge Parish School System’s Tax Plan, Flood Recovery, and Grants Management work. Marcus has over 12 years of architectural experience working in Atlanta and Baton Rouge in market sectors such as high-rise condominiums, hospitality, educational, detention and corporate office design. While his expertise is in all phases of project delivery, his specialization is in construction contract administration. Marcus is also a licensed architect in the state of Louisiana.

Marcus’s Portfolio